Category: Criticism

One of the most amazing things about the Vault festival is the sheer volume of work that is on, brimming over with variety, bursting at the seems with challenges, with questions – and our appetite increases for more, year on year. Naturally, in these damp caverns of creativity, there is …

You’re reading this review. So, if you’re not one of these girls, you probably know one. And if you don’t think you do, you do… they’re just hiding it well. Sorry, who am I talking about? Well. It probably won’t shock you to learn the artists who make the …

In a departure from the more off the wall, experimental Vaults Festival fare going on all around, Say Something Happened is a rather more sedate offering out on the fringe, tucked away in the independent Network Theatre. The one-act play is a stage adaptation of a 1982 Alan Bennett television drama. Bennett …

Shez is sixteen. From a happy childhood, she hit her teens and found her life started to unravel. As she grapples with her relationship with her Mum, her Dad, and her prickly-faced boyfriend, how can she forge an identity of her own? The answer she comes to means she can …

A bed. A mini fridge. A closet. A bathroom door. The necessities of a cheap motel are boxed into a claustrophobic chipboard room. Then a whooshing sound. Darkness. When the lights come back on, a trembling girl with a make-shift bag on her head is nudged gently into the room. …

From a very young age I was fascinated by stories, as most children are. I would tell stories to my baby sister before I could even read, pointing my chubby infant fingers at the colourful pictures and telling her the bits I could remember. When I couldn’t remember, I would …

However many years pass by, we never entirely forget what it is to be young. Big the Musical, which premiered in 1996 and which followed the 1988 film, is a nostalgic night out which will have you asking, when did you last check in with your inner ‘Big’ kid? Josh …

Wild Duck Theatre at OSO Arts Centre, Barnes until 18th November On a cold, foggy, November night, you might think a trip to sunny Australia, via the OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, would be the perfect antidote, but if you take a trip to Picnic at Hanging Rock this week, expect …

Let’s face it, critics need to re-join the real world and boycott opening night. Image credit: The Rose Theatre As the plastic wrappings are lifted from the individually cut sandwiches, the cold white wine mists the glasses and the petit fours glisten, temptingly at the far end of the table, …